Snakes On A Plane: Scrub Python Gets Stuck On Wing Of On Qantas Flight

Flapping majestically in the breeze, passengers were stunned to notice a nine-foot Amethystine python attatched to the wing of a Qantas airline as it took off from Cairns, or, to put it another way, a "motherf*****g snake," on a "motherf*****g plane."

But it wasn't a cult Samuel L Jackson movie about an unlikely terrorist plot to bring down a plane with pheromone-enraged pythons, it was an unfortunate, non-poisonous specimen, which appeared around an hour into the Qantas flight between Cairns in northern Queensland and the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby.

Herpetologist David Williams at the University of Melbourne's School of Medicine's Venom Research Unit told the Herald Sun: "These occur in the Mt Whitfield area directly opposite Cairns airport and probably also in the mangroves that surround the airport."

The snake did not survive, leaving a bloody splatter on the aircraft. No need to call in Samuel L.